ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
To all whom these presents shall come:

George Vardon, of the City of Montreal, Esquire, Assistant Superintendent
General of Indian Affairs; Thomas G. Anderson, of the City of Toronto, Esquire, and
Joseph B. Clench, of the Town of London, Esquire, Visiting Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, send greeting: Whereas, in and by certain Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of the Province of Canada, and bearing date the twelfth day of January, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, it is recited that the
Chiefs, Warriors, women and children of the Six Nations residing in the District or
Territory of Tyendinaga, in the District of Victoria, in the Provinee of Canada, had
by deed poll under the hands and totems of certain Chiefs therein named and affixed
thereto in testimony of the assent of the said Six Nations to the act of surrender
thereby made, surrendered and yielded up to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs
and successors, the tract or parcel of land thereinafter described, and by the said
Letters Patent granted, trusting and confiding in Her said Majesty’s royal will and
pleasure to re-grant the same to the persons therein named as trustees for their use,
in manner and subject to the trusts and for the ends, intents, and purposes, and
with, under, and subject to the powers, provisoes, conditions, restrictions, limita-
tions and declarations thetein expressed, declared and contained, of and concerning
the same. And whereas Her said Majesty, being willing and desirous to carry into
effect the wishes and desires of the said Six Nations, did by the said Letters Patent,
ot Her special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, give and grant unto
them the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson, and Joseph B. Clench, their
heirs and assigns for ever, all that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in
the Township of Tyendinaga, in the District of Victoria, and on the south-easterly
side of the Salmon River, in the Province of Canada, being composed of parts of lots
numbers five and six in the first concession south of the road in the said township,
containing by admeasurement twenty-six acres and three roods of land, be the same
more or less, including the several streets laid out or intended to be laid out thereon,
for the purpose of forming a town plot, and which said tract or parce! of land is
butted and bounded or may be otherwise known as follows, that is to say:
Commencing in front of the said concession at the south-east angle of
the said lot number six; then north sixteen degrees west thirteen chains,
more or less, to land leased by the Mohawk Indians to George Auldjo, Esquire;
then southerly seventy-four degrees west twenty chains fifty links, more or less,
to the south-easterly side of the Salmon River; then south-westerly, following the
south-easterly side of the said river down the stream to the allowance for road
in front of the said concession; then north eighty-two degrees thirty minutes east
twenty-nine chains seventy-five links, more or less, to the place of beginning;
reserving, nevertheless, the allowance for road between the said lots numbers five
and six, and free access to the shore of the said Salmon River for all vessels, boats
and persons: To have and to hold the said tract: or parcel of land thereby given
and granted unto them the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and Joseph
B. Clench, their heirs and assigns, as joint tenants, and not as tenants in common, free
and clear of and from all manner of rents, fines or services whatsoever to be rendered
by them the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and Joseph B. Clench, or
their heirs, to Her said Majesty and Her successors, for the same and of and from all
conditions, stipulations and agreements whatever, except as thereinafter expressed
and declared, but nevertheless upon the trusts and for the ends, intents and purposes
therein expressed, declared and contained, of and concerning the same (that is to
say), upon trust that they, the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and Joseph
B. Clench, and the survivors and survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such
survivor should, upon the direction and with the assent of the Governor General or
person for the time being administering the Government of the said Province of

Canada, to be testified by his signing his name or the initials of his name in the
margin of every deed of conveyance to be made under or by virtue of the
E. K._ aforesaid deed or Letters Patent from time to time, when and as the same
should be deemed expedient, make sale and absolutely dispose of the said
tract or parcel of land thereby granted, with their appurtenances, in such lot or lots
and upon such terms.as to payment of the purchase money or purchase monies as should
be considered most advantageous and likely to produce the most money for the same
respectively, and either by public sale or auction or private contract, or partly by
public sale or auction and partly by private contract, unto such person or persons
as they or he should think fit, and for such price or prices as to them or him
should seem reasonable, with liberty for them or him to consent to the abandonment
or to any alteration in the terms and conditions of any contract or contracts which
should be entered into for the sale of the said hereditaments and premises, without
being answerable for any loss which might arise thereby; and that all monies to
arise and be produced by the sale of the said hereditaments and premises, or any
part or parts thereof, should be payable and paid when and as the same should res-
pectively become due unto the said Superintendent General of Indian Affairs or
other officer to be by the Governor General for the time being, as aforesaid, appointed
in that behalf, whose receipt alone should be a good and sufficient discharge to the
purchaser or purchasers of the said hereditaments and premises, or any part or parts
’ thereof, or for so much of the said monies as in such receipt or receipts should be
expressed or acknowledged to be or to have been received; and upon the production
of the said receipt or receipts it should and might be lawful to and for the said George
‘Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and Joseph B. Clench, or the survivors or survivor of
them, or the heirs or assigns of such survivor, to enter into, make and execute all
such deeds, conveyances and assurances as to them or him should seem reasonable.

And whereas the system under which the lands set apart within this Province for
the benefit of the various Indian tribes have been vested in trustees, as above described,
has been found to be attended with inconvenience, and it has consequently been deter -
mined to require all lands so circumstanced to be re-invested in Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, Her heirs and successors, with a view, nevertheless, to the more perfect
accomplishment of the object of the original grants.

And whereas the Indian Department have requested the grantors herein named
to convey to Her Majesty the parcel of land herein described and hereby intended to
be: conveyed, with the objects, nevertheless, and for the purposes hereinbefore stated,.
and the said trustees have consented thereto: Now these presents witness, that 1
consideration of the premises, and also in further consideration of the sum of five
shillings of lawful money of the said Province to the said George Vardon, Thomas
G. Anderson and Joseph B. Clench, on behalf of Her said Majesty in hand paid, the
receipt whereof the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and Joseph B. Clench
do and each of them doth hereby acknowledge, they the said George Vardon, Tho-
mas @. Anderson and Joseph B. Clench have and each of them hath granted, con-
veyed, released, enfeoffed, surrendered and confirmed, and by these do and each of
them doth grant, convey, release, enfeoff, surrender and confirm unto Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors forever, all and singular those certain
parcels or tracts of land and premises hereinbefore specially described. To have
and to hold the said lands and premises, with all and every the appendages and appur-
tenances unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors, to the use
of Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors forever, in as full and ample manner to
all intents and purposes as they the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson and
| Joseph B. Clench can or may by law, or otherwise grant, convey, release, enfeoff
|. surrender and confirm the same, together with the said Letters Patent, but with a
sole view, nevertheless, to the benefit of the aforesaid Indians and for the purpose of
disposing of the said lands more conveniently and carrying out the objects in the said
Letters Patent hereinbefore recited more particularly stated and set forth.

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In Wirness WHEREOF, we, the said George Vardon, Thomas G. Anderson anid
Joseph B. Clench have hereunto set our hand and seals at Toronto, this eighth day —
of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and in ~
the fourteenth year of Her Majesty’s reign. .

Signed, sealed and delivered in tke) GEORGE VARDON, [L.S.]
presence of: § T. G. Anverson, S..4.,  [L.S.]
S. Y. CHESLEY, J. B. Curnen, 8.2/4. [L.8.]

Wo. R. BARTLETT,
Signed, sealed and delivered by the
within named George Vardon in
the presence of:
D. C. NAPIER,
IGNACE GIASSON. 5

Received on the day of the date above mentioned, from and on the part of Her :
Majesty the Queen, the sum of five shillings of lawful money: of the Province of @
Canada, being the full consideration money mentioned in the within deed of convey- ~
ance, to be paid on the part of Her said Majesty to us, for and on the part and behalf
of the Six Nations residing on the District or Territory of Tyendinaga, in the District
of Victoria, in the Province of Canada.

Witness hereto:

S. Y. Cuestey, GEORGE VARDON, [L.8.]
Wm. R. BaRtTLett. T. G. Anperson, S.I.A., [1L.8.]

J. B. Orencn, 8.1.4. [L.$.]
Witness to signature of said George
Vardon:
D. C. NAPIER.
IGNACE GIASSON.

UprER CANADA, |

ey Wits |

I certify that this is the identical deed poll produced before me, and referred to
in an affidavit of the execution of the same, and of a memorial thereof made before
me this day by S. Y. Chesley.

Witness my hand this 19th day of September, 1857.

P. M. VANKOUGHNET,
Commissioner, &c.

LoweER CANADA, l

To Wit: §

I certify that this is the identical deed poll produced before me, and referred to
in an affidavit of the execution of the same, made before me this day by D. C.
Napier.

Witness my hand this eighth day of November, 1851.
I. R. ROLLAND,

J.B.U.
CouNTY OF HASTINGS.
To Wit:
I hereby certify that a memorial of the within Indenture is, this 29th day of
November, A.D. 1851, entered and registered in this office, at the hour of one
o’clock, p.m., in Book A. for the Township of Tyendinaga, pages 220 and 221;

memorial of township record, 206; general number, 2747.
E. H. BENJAMIN,
Dy. Reg’r., County of Hastings.
Recorded 16th December, 1851. Lib. OC. S., Folio 41.
THOMAS AMIOT,
Dy. Reg’r) of the Province.